The Mental Health Foundation has been asked to collect the views of people who use social care about how social care workers can help people’s mental health and well-being. If you receive support or help from an organisation that provides social care, or you are a relative or friend of someone who does, we would be very grateful if you could complete a short online survey. It should take no more than 10 minutes of your time. You can get more information and complete the survey at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SocialCarePrinciples
As readers of this blog may know, Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust is in the process of relocating psychiatric inpatient services from Edale House at the Central Manchester Hospital (MRI) site to Park House at North Manchester General Hospital. We've always been concerned about the impact that this move will have on carers and service users in terms of increased transport times. A representative from the Trust came to our meeting last month to update us on plans for transport and the Trust's latest newsletter contains the following update on the service user and carer transport sub-group: "The group last met on 6 February and it was decided that another visitor questionnaire should be undertaken to make sure that we make the right decisions about transport. It was also agreed that more engagement and communication with service users is necessary and the service users and carers who attend the meetings will support this....
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